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H. H. SESSIONS.

MOVABLE PARTITION FOR TOILET APARTMENTS. No. 371,982.

Patented Oct. 25, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

HENRY HOWARD SESSIONS, OF PULLMAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE PULLMANS PALACE CAR COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MOVABLE PARTITION FOR TOILET-APARTMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,982, dated October 25, 1887.

. Application filed May 6, 1887. Serial No. 237,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HOWARD SEs- SIONS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pullman, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Movable Partitions for Toilet-Apartments, which I desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is more especially designed to obviate a deficiency in the construction of toilet-rooms of railroad-coaches. In the usual manner of constructing a suit of toilet apartments the subdivision is permanent.

My method of construction is to introduce a swinging partition which is susceptible of such manipulation as to interchangeably vary the size of the apartments.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged detail sections.

In Fig. 2 there are especially shown three divisions. For the present example, G may be a withdrawing-room, H a toilet-room, and F a closet. The permanent inclosure and partitions are represented by a a, &e.

K represents the exit and entrance door for the suite.

A is the swinging partition, hinged at D D D to a permanent partition. Partition A. is provided with a door, B, hinged at E E E. The threshold C is shown in connection with this partition, forming a connection at the bottom thereof. WVithout theintervention-of partition A there is free communication between the three divisions-that is, passages lead from division H into each of the others, said passages being of equal width. As seen in Fig. 2, partition A is secured in position in the passage between divisions H and G, when, by means of door B, the latter division may become an apartment of extra privacy, while divisions H and F form an apartment in com- (No model.)

mon. When partition Ais swung into the passage between the divisions H and F (indi- 5 cated by dotted lines) and secured, the latter division may become an apartment of extra privacy, and divisions H and G would be in common.

The supplementary opening-that is, the opening in partition A, closed by door B may be closed by a curtain, though the latter would not, of course, aiford the protection to privacy that is secured by the provision of a door.

By my method of constructing toilet apartments the narrow limit necessarily devoted to such use in acoach afi'ords the greatest possible freedom and convenience with a desirable subdivision of the suite.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a toilet-suite for passenger-coaches, a combination oftwo or more apartments having. a passage-way, respectively, with which a sin gle partition is so pivotally connected that by a movement of the latter on its bearings either of the passage-ways may be closed, said partitions being provided with a door or supple- 7o mental opening, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination of divisions G,'H, and F with a swinging partition, A, provided with a door, B, and hinged or pivoted at the tripartite intersection, whereby the passage between divisions H and For H and G may be alternately opened and closed, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of the divisions H, G, and F with partition A and door B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY HOWARD SESSIONS.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK C. Goonwnv, J osnrn RIDGE. 

